“Although Apple has publicly announced that it’s next generation OS won’t ship until September, still nearly two months off, development appears to be rapidly grinding to a close. Yesterday’s OS X 10.6 developer seed arrived with spit and polish improvements, the kind one would expect to see in a release candidate or gold master,” FairerPlatform reports.

“Although fleshy details and benchmarks haven’t yet appeared, reports on 9 to 5 Mac and MacRumors Forums echo each other in what’s new Snow Leopard 10A402,” FP reports.

• Much faster performance all around
• Five second shutdown
• Safari is much snappier
• New build [42] of Quicktime X

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